There is a meme going around that people should mention a list of ten books that changed them. The following is my list:

• A Short History of Nearly Everything: Bill Bryson

• The TeXbook: Donald E. Knuth

• One, two, three, infinity: George Gamov

• Physics and Music: Gleb Anfilov

• The Concept of A Riemann Surface: Hermann Weyl

• Yuganta, The End of an Epoch: Iravati Karve

• Three men in a Boat: Jerome K. Jerome

• Mathematics for the Million: Lancelot Hogben

• My Experiments with Truth: Mohandas K. Gandhi

• Rainbow's End: Vernor Vinge

How the list was created.

1. I made a list of keywords for the books (since I didn't remember the title/author in some cases). This took 5 minutes.

2. Hunted on Google for precise titles and full author names.

3. Trimmed the list to 10. (There were about 15!)

4. Sorted the list in Alphabetical order.

Of course, each book is the "leader" in a list of books that are similar.